Nancy Wilkinson

Nancy Barbara Constance Wilkinson (née Bird; 29 September 1919 – 21 November 1999) was the winner of the first series of the BBC television quiz show Mastermind in 1972.

Wilkinson was born in London in 1919. She studied modern languages and music at Cambridge from 1937 to 1941, and during World War II worked for the intelligence service at Bletchley Park. On 13 July 1945 she married John Wilkinson, She taught at the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now the Anglia Ruskin University).